BLÜHEN PUNKT* Fechner Vineyard Eden Valley Gewürztraminer 2024

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*Blossom Point. An aromatic wunderkind from the Fechner Bros' revered Eden Valley vineyard. 24 hours skin contact. Unfined. Unfiltered. 238 dozen made.

Gewürz with the works!!

This is the first release of our BLUHEN PUNKT punkt in 2 years!! We wait for the perfect vintage to make this exotic little beauty, and 2024 was undoubtably its year to shine...

Winemakers: Daniel Chaffey Hartwig + Huon Fechner + Theo Engela
Varietal: Gewürtztraminer
Region: Eden Valley
Alc/Vol: 13%
pH: 3.6
Acidity: 3.3
Bottle size: 750ml

2024

92pts + SILVER Medal - Australian Alternative Varieties Wineshow

92pts "The Chaffey crew consistently roll out a really impressive gewürztraminer from the Fechner family vineyard in Moculta, Eden Valley. There's a wee bit of skin contact in the mix and it's all slink and heady aromas and flavours of rose petals, lychee, Turkish delight, mineral salts, baked apple, yellow plum and pickled ginger. Weighty but with great length of flavour and lacy acid drive teetering on the ridgeline of dry/off-dry. It's delicious." - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion

92pts "Pale lemon hue. There's a slight viscosity to the appearance. Deeply aromatic and you can smell the weight. Rosewater, Turkish Delight, white chalk, lemon curd, sea spray, fleshy lychee, flint, honeysuckle, glace ginger and a touch of pine needle. The weight carries through the front palate. Golden Delicious flavour leads to pithy citrus, ginger spice and the unmistakeable rosewater and lychee. The palate weight tails neatly into fine and crystal acidity with a chalky finish. Balanced and elegant." - Regan Drew, Vino Notebook

2022

93pts + SILVER Medal - Australian Alternative Varieties Wineshow

92pts "Single-vineyard Eden Valley gewürztraminer from the Fechner Bros property in Moculta; 24 hours' skin contact. Light straw with heady aromas of rosewater, bath salts, musk, lychee, crunchy red apple, frangipani, marzipan, crushed quartz and souk-like spices. Damn, it smells inviting. The palate shows great clarity and detail and an edge of citrus, musk lollies and candied ginger with crystalline acidity and a finish that lingers in a way that is gloriously and relentlessly floral and endearing. Super stuff" - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion

92pts "Sucked in to the floral softness and aromatics of the variety's signature rosewater and musk. Dry talc, pink salt, pink grapefruit and baking spices swirl and evolve. Latent depth and richness bounce and race with spices and floral aromatics. Finishing tight and very dry" - Regan Drew, Vino Notebook

91pts "Pale and bright lemon-yellow in the glass. Fragrant and lifted with rose petal, musk and lychee notes on the nose and palate. As it flows with a silken glide, a hint of candied ginger offers a contrasting element. Has a richness to its texture which straddles the sweet/dry boundary with aplomb. More suited to food than in isolation" - Stuart Knox, The Real Review

2019

92pts "Not trying to be anything but the vivacious variety that comes with the territory. Scents of rose water, peach, sweet citrus and citrus blossoms. Lovely. The palate is fleshy and juicy at once, finishes slightly nutty and the wine carries heaps of flavour very well. A good vibe here." - Mike Bennie, WBM

92pts "I'm a sucker for the aromatics on Gewürztraminer : the rich softness of rosewater and musk here is balanced by talc, crushed pink salt with pink grapefruit and nettle prickle. The time on skins gives depth to the palate while the natural acidity keeps it zesty and bright. All that sweetness on the nose is somewhat of a facade as this finishes chalky and dry." - Regan Drew, Vino Notebook

90pts "Varietal gewürztraminer from the Eden Valley. Blumen Punkt translates to Blossom Point. Texture plus. All about mouthfeel. Orange oil and blossom, some lime, some lychee. Rosewater and a good deal of it. Much pleasure to be had here." - The Wine Front

2017

91pts "Varietal gewürztraminer from the Eden Valley. Blumen Punkt translates to Blossom Point. Nice. This is the first release of this wine. It saw 24 hours skin contact. It's both racy and floral, its lychee and rosewater aromas/flavours zipped along in fast, mouthwatering fashion, the finish then textural-bordering-on-grippy. Pleasant plus. Most enjoyable. Fresh, characterful and elegant" - Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front

90pts "Has above average varietal expression on the bouquet and palate, with exotic spice, berry, rosewater and confection notes. 238 dozen made" - Halliday Wine Companion